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Dining Hall at Point View Island

Collection: This image is from the Jacob F. Wieners, Jr. Photographs and is depicted in a glass plate negative, polyester negative, print, and digital image.; Image is part of the Jacob F. Wieners Photographs
Date: ca. 1898; 1893 Material: unknown material on plate glass; safety film; gelatin silver print Dimension: 8 x 10 inches (glass plate negative); 4 x 5 (negative); 8 x 10 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)
Creator: Jacob F. Wieners, Jr. Identifier: aql:12267 jfw-000246 jfw-000246.tif

Description: Two men stand in the doorway, over which the words "Dining Hall" are painted on the building's siding. A water tank is seen at right. Joseph Witzel's Point View Island was a large and popular resort and amusement park on what is now Tallman Island on Long Island Sound, just west of the present-day Whitestone Bridge.

Collection : aql:11775; vital:1

Creator : Jacob F. Wieners, Jr.

Date : ca. 1898; 1893

Summary/Description : Two men stand in the doorway, over which the words "Dining Hall" are painted on the building's siding. A water tank is seen at right. Joseph Witzel's Point View Island was a large and popular resort and amusement park on what is now Tallman Island on Long Island Sound, just west of the present-day Whitestone Bridge.

Subject : Resorts; Restaurants

Rights : Copyright holder unknown

Coverage : Point View Island (now Tallman Island), Flushing, NY College Point (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : glass plate negative; black and white negative; black and white print; digital image

Format : unknown material on plate glass; safety film; gelatin silver print; 8 x 10 inches (glass plate negative); 4 x 5 (negative); 8 x 10 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)

Identifier : aql:12267 jfw-000246 jfw-000246.tif

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